With the coverage of the Cubs’ run to the NL Central title and their brief appearance in the 2020 postseason, this news item got skipped by me last week, and I wanted to give this popular player some recognition:
Jay Johnstone, who won World Series championships as a versatile outfielder with the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers while being baseball’s merry prankster, has died. He was 74.
He died Saturday of complications from COVID-19 and had suffered from dementia in recent years, according to his daughter, Mary Jayne Sarah Johnstone.